This coming weekend (May 4-5), Denverites will descend upon the southern burb of Littleton, CO for the inaugural South Denver Beer Fest, with over 60 breweries, both local and national (and a couple of Belgians, as well as a couple of local distillers). Unfortunately the Fest will carry on without roughly 8 breweries planned for [...]
I feel a small amount of guilt in writing this, the second post in a row not really about beer. However, it needs to be said: craft spirits is blowing up, son! Look, we’re all beer nerds here; you don’t read a beer blog hosted by RateBeer.com without being somewhat nerdy about beer. We all wonder why [...]
So, a long while ago I wrote here about Mead, and its comeback, and its relevance to craft beer. Well, I’m back writing about it again. I love the stuff, admittedly. And while I have only seen 2 non-Colorado meads on even the nerdiest of liquor store shelves (CO itself only has 4 producers of [...]
Earlier this month I attended THE Big Beers, Belgians, & Barlywines Fest in Vail, Colorado. I emphasized the ‘THE’ because, in short, it oozes as much (potentially more) awesomesauce than GABF. Sam Calagione has gone on record saying it’s his favorite fest every year. And it pretty well proves itself: a tasting of 67 [...]
John McClane drops Hans Gruber off the top of Nakatomi Plaza, U2 charmed our hearts and won a grammy, and gas was 91¢ a gallon. The year is 1988, and America had just begun to feel good about itself again. But more importantly to this blog, Craft Beer was very much in an infant stage [...]
Ah, late-December. That time of season for year-end reviews and Top Ten lists. But while some beer-writers decided to go with a straight-forward Top Ten Beers list, I decided to take a stranger road. A lesser traveled road of lesser-traveled beers, as it were. Now, since I live in Denver, I could only get my [...]
So, if you follow any of your favorite local breweries on Twitter or Facebook, or you regularly check in on the Brewer’s Association (or their other page CraftBeer.com), you have no doubt heard by now that The Brewers Association has issued a press release (available in full here) calling out the macro-brewers for their veiled [...]
2012 has been a helluva year for Wynkoop Brewing Company in Denver. Local nerds will know Wynkoop as Colorado’s first brewpub, co-founded by now-governor John Hickenlooper, and a place that makes, until recently, okay beer that won’t excite nor disappoint. At least, those were my feelings for much of 2010-2011. For a place boasting “Colorado’s First”, it [...]
In the U.S., GF foods have pulled in an estimated $2.6 billion across supermarkets and restaurants. And even though only an estimated 1% of people have celiac–the digestive disorder that makes gluten a poison–craft brewers are clamoring to get a piece of the buckwheat-crust pie. Gluten is found in all the delicious grains commonly used to [...]
I think we can all say that we are, by now, fully recovered from another amazing Great American Beer Fest week. I myself have had 4 beers since last Saturday, and doing great. But you know who is really doing great? The city of Denver. Because unlike the Olympics who comes into your city and [...]
